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Did you know that "opleiden" in Dutch means "supposed to be a Fenian outrage"?
excerpt from a telegraph book that uses code words to replace entire phrases, such as "terrible outrage", "fenian outrage", "niilist", "socialist", etc. The words had to be pronouncable, so they often borrowed from other languages.
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Trammell Hudson
Trammell Hudson
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Since it comes up all the time in normal conversations, Dutch also has a single word that means "If ordered from port of call to the Continent, 6d. extra per quarter grain or seed, and 3/6 extra per ton tallow for stowage goods".
telegraph code book with entire phrases replaced by single words, most of which are from other languages.
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Trammell Hudson
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I'm beginning to think this might not be the best study dictionary for my Dutch lessons. archive.org/details/abcunivers…
Cover page of "The ABC Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code. Specially adapted for the use of financiers, merchants, shipowners, underwriters, engineers, brokers, agents, &c. Suitable for everyone"

The A B C universal commercial electric telegraphic code, specially adapted for the use of financiers, merchants, shipowners, underwriters, engineers, brokers, agents, &c., suitable for every one. Multum in parvo. Simplicity and economy palpable, secrecy

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Internet Archive
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Trammell Hudson I think that in 2025 everything should have support for unicode

archive.org/details/UnicodeUni…

@Trammell Hudson
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Trammell Hudson
Trammell Hudson
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@valhalla the problem with unicode is that the SHIP section is very short and does not have have a way to easily send "ARRIVED HERE AT —, ENCOUNTERED A SEVERE GALE AND HEAVY SEAS, WHICH CARRIED AWAY BOATS AND WHEEL, STANCHIONS AND BULWARKS, BROKE MAST AND JIB-BOOM, ALL SAILS GONE"
excerpt from unicode telegraph book that has codes for "ship is detained", "... is due", "just sailed", etc.
@Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Trammell Hudson right. and I think it doesn't have have a way to easily send a message if the ship is stuck on the risen continent of Atlantis. Does the ABC?
@Trammell Hudson
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Saguaro Lynx
Saguaro Lynx
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I like the implication that All of the Cool Kids (firms) use *UNICODE*

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with a list of prominent commercial firms who are Unicode users
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Perhaps the next version will better accommodate the messages you two have.

8- )

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ranjit
ranjit
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idea: a social network where you can only post using the ABC Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code
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Trammell Hudson
Trammell Hudson
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@ranjit will you also allow messages compressed with the Code Condenser? Only $3 for two copies.
title page from ABC telegraph code book advertising the "Code Condenser that will permit of sending *two code words in one*"
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ranjit
ranjit
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That's a different instance. The two can federate with each other but they have a hard time understanding each other, kinda like oulipo.social and dolphin.town.
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jleedev
jleedev
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@phooky @ranjit in our house we call that "losing play-doh privileges again"
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